Northern race larvae with black head, yellowish or greenish body with dark dorsal stripe and long whitish hairs arising from black and orange tubercles located along sides (in each cluster of hairs, at least one hair about twice as long as others)

Size: larvae up to 1"

Flights:1in north

Larval food: leaves of hardwoods

Eggs: laid in mass on underside of leaf, covered with hairs from female's abdomen [Female often dies because of energy expended.]

Larvae: feed communally within webs of silk, may molt up to eleven times

Overwinter as: pupae in cocoons

2007

June 30

On Smoothleaf Elm

2011

June 15

On Black Tupelo

June 18

On Black Tupelo

June 20

On Black Tupelo

June 23

On Black Tupelo

June 25

On Black Tupelo

June 26

On Black Tupelo

2012

September 10

On Slippery Elm

September 14

On Slippery Elm

September 22

On Slippery Elm with Bark Mycena mushrooms

2013

July 21

July 26

On Slippery Elm

September 23

On Slippery Elm

2014

On Sweetgum

August 24

Dead female with eggs, some recently hatched

August 29

All eggs hatched

August 30

Larvae with spun web

August 31

September 2

September 3

September 4

Last few surviving larvae

Empty Cocoon

On White Fringetree

Adult

On Red Maple

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